Improvement in garment-supporters



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T. J. CARROLL. Garment Supporter.

Patented March 19, I878.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

THOMAS J. CARROLL, or BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPRO VEM ENT IN GARMENT-SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,327, dated March 19, 1878;

February 6, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. CARROLL, of Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improved Garment-Supporter, which is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a plan or top view of my garment supporter. Fig. 2 is the under side thereof, showing the securing-bar; Fig. 3, a side view of the same.

' Arepresents the garment-supporter; B, the securing-bar; (l, the corrugated hook; D, the pivot; H H, the tangs.

. This invention is an improvement upon the stocking and sleeve supporter patented to me recently. Its advantages consist in adopting a construction that obviates the necessity of a spring to hold the securing-barinplace, and in providing tangs by which the supporter is attached, without stitches, to the connectingband with which it is used. Another important element of superiority is the capability of its production at about one-half the cost of the former article.

These ends are eflected by pivoting the se' curing-bar B at D, so that it may be turned application filed away to permit corrugated hook O to engage with the article to be supported, and then turned back beneath the article, the corner of the bar being rounded, so as not to tear delicate fabrics, and the more readily to slip under the corrugated hook and intervening material.

To secure the supporter to the connectingband, I place the band through the ring and around the tangs H H, which may then be bent down tightly thereon.

I claim as myinvent-ion and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, in a garment-supporter, of pivoted bar B, corrugated hook G, and tan gs H H, arranged upon the ring, constructed and operating together substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A garment supporter provided with a ring having pointed tangs, for fastening it to the connecting-band, with which it is to be used, substantially as described.

THOMAS J. CARROLL.

Witnesses F. A. NICKERsoN, I. B. PRINDLE. 

